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    Administrative Determinants Associated With Health Seeking Behavior Among Women of Reproductive Age 25–45 Years: A Case Study of Amugu Health Center III Alebtong District
    (Uganda Christian University, 2024-09-23) Odongo Levi
    Health seeking behavior (HSB) is the act of making a decision to seek or not to seek health care from qualified medical personnel when not feeling well. In its widest sense, health behaviors’ includes all those behaviors’ associated with establishing and retaining a health state, plus aspects of dealing with any departure from that state (WHO, 2013). The purpose of was to find out the factors associated with health seeking behavior among women of reproductive age of Amugu health center 111. To find out the socio-economic factors; the institutional factors and the environmental factors which influencing the health seeking behavior among women. The study used descriptive survey design where both qualitative and quantitative research approaches of data collection methods, analysis and presentations were used. Data was collected using self administered questionnaires, observation checklist and interview guide. Purposive sampling was used to select the wards and simple random sampling to select the participants. SPSS version 17 was used to analyze quantitative data and tables were used to analyze qualitative data out of 212 respondents, almost all the respondents 94.3% were female. 33.0% of respondents had attained primary level, 47.6% attained secondary level while 16.5% attained tertiary/university level of education. On the side of the statements on factors influencing use of PPE, the majority of the respondents agreed with the statements that were studied in relation to Institutional, Environmental and Socio-economic factors influencing the HSB of women. The majority of the respondents agreed with the factors influencing HSB among women. Improving women’s education and employment status can play a dual role in enhancing both women’s autonomy and healthcare-seeking behavior.: The problem of “poor” health seeking behavior among women requires behavioral change interventions, such as, behavior change messages via all media sources, community health sensitization which is gender sensitive, behavior change motivation strategies like: setting up facilities that caters for only women of reproductive age to preserve their privacy